Dora Maar, Untitled Drawing of Reclining Woman

Description This is one of two drawings by Dora Maar, the muse and lover of Pablo Picasso and, more important, artist in her own right.   Details Dora Maar (French, 1907-1997) Untitled nude Ink on paper Signed D.M. and stamped en verso 17" x 19 1/2" (overall) matted and framed in a gray wooden frame, under glass Minor toning to edges of paper About the Artist We would like to set the record straight right here and now:  Dora Maar was a strong, fascinating, talented and accomplished woman long before she became, for better or worse, the muse and lover of Pablo Picasso.  Born Henriette Markovitch in 1907, Maar spent her childhood in Paris and Buenos Aires where her father was an architect. Upon the family's return to Paris in 1926 she began her art training in earnest at the Central Union of Decorative Arts, the School of Photography, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian.  During those early years she was introduced to Henri Catier-Bresson and befriended surrealist artist